The wisdom of the crowd with partial rankings: A Bayesian approach implementing the Thurstone model in JAGS

LE Montgomery, N Bradford, MD Lee - Behavior Research Methods, 2024 - Springer
We develop a Bayesian method for aggregating partial ranking data using the Thurstone
model. Our implementation is a JAGS graphical model that allows each individual to rank …

Decision field theory-combined multi-attribute group decision-making method for incomplete linear ordinal ranking

N Liu, Z Xu, H Wu - Applied Soft Computing, 2023 - Elsevier
In practice, experts sometimes compare alternatives from different perspectives by rankings
to express their preferences. However, it is common that the comparing information they give …

Leveraging Diversity to Improve the Wisdom of the Crowd

LE Montgomery - 2024 - search.proquest.com
This dissertation addresses how contextualized expertise and task design can improve
wisdom of the crowd estimates. The first two chapters apply the wisdom of the crowd to two …